Time is an effect, like temperature, pressure, color and sound. Time is frequency, events are amplitude.

Energy is conserved, because it is the present. As such, it goes past to future, while the patterns generated go future to past, rising and falling. Energy drives the wave, while the fluctuations rise and fall.

So consciousness functions as an energy.

Though it is our digestive, respiratory and circulatory systems processing the energy, feeding the flame, while the central nervous system sorts the information. Signals from the noise.

So we tend to think of reality in terms of order and chaos, rather then energy and form.